Clerk Update – February 6, 2025

The Clerk team has been hard at work shipping new features to help you build secure applications faster. Here’s a rundown of the highlights:

Official SDK for Vue and Nuxt

The @clerk/vue and @clerk/nuxt are now the official Clerk SDKs built specifically for Vue and Nuxt respectively. These SDKs allow developers to add authentication and authorization into their applications in minutes using the same developer experience built into all Clerk libraries.

• Clerk’s UI components make it easy to add beautiful, interactive UI elements like <SignUp />, <SignIn/>, and <UserButton /> directly into your Vue application.
• Protect API routes in Nuxt by referencing the event.context.auth object on the server to decide if the user should be allowed to access authorized content.

Get started with this SDK by walking through either the Vue quickstart → or Nuxt quickstart → in our docs.

Combined sign-in-or-sign-up

Our <SignIn /> component now allows users to sign up if they don’t already have an existing account. If an account is not found when the user attempts to sign in, they will be automatically redirected to the sign up flow, streamlining the process of signing up to your service.

• Combined sign-in-or-sign-up is now the default behavior for the <SignIn /> component, automating this implementation for new Clerk applications.
• Easily use the traditional behavior by including a CLERK_SIGN_UP_URL environment variable and including the <SignUp /> component in your application.

Learn more about this new behavior in the docs →.

Other Features, Fixes & Improvements

• C# Backend SDK: Allow C# developers to easily interact with the Clerk Backend API to manage users, organizations, sessions, and more.
• Stable release of the React Router SDK: Known bugs have been addressed, simply install @clerk/react-router@latest!
• Member search added to <OrganizationProfile />: You can now search for members within the active organization using the <OrganizationProfile /> component.
• Ruby Backend SDK 4.0: This new version of the Ruby Backend SDK adds to or extends first-class support for Rails, Rails API, Sinatra, and Rack.

Community Event: ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon

Our friends at ElevenLabs are hosting a worldwide hackathon focused on AI Agents on February 22nd and 23rd. Teams of 2-4 people will get the opportunity to meet at one of 6 physical locations around the world, or compete from anywhere on the ElevenLabs Discord server!

Learn more on the ElevenLabs hackathon website →⁠.

Resources

• Ultimate Next 15 Course: Build a YouTube Clone⁠ by Code with Antonio⁠
• How to customize Next.js metadata by Brian Morrison II⁠
• How to implement Google authentication in Next.js by Alex Booker⁠
• Build Your Own Movie App with Next.js, MongoDB and Clerk⁠ by Code with Sahand⁠
• Build an AI Agent that can use Tools in Next.js 15⁠ by Sonny Sangha⁠
• What is middleware in Next.js? by Brian Morrison II⁠
• Video Calling Interview Platform⁠ by As a Programmer⁠
• Next.js MySQL Socket.io Social X App Tutorial⁠ by Lama Dev⁠
• Authentication with Clerk in NestJS Server Application⁠ by Oluwadamilola Babalola⁠
• Protecting Routes in Next.js⁠ by Codevolution⁠
• Building a Next.js login page template by Brian Morrison II⁠

If you have feedback or suggestions, we want to hear them! Let us know at feedback.clerk.com⁠. For the latest on our product releases, follow @ClerkDev on 𝕏⁠ or join the Clerk Community on Discord⁠.